Professional experiences on use of the mental health act in ethnically diverse populations: a photovoice study by Bhui, K, Mooney, R, Joseph, D, McCabe, R, Newbigging, K, McCrone, P, Raghavan, R, Keating, F, Husein, N, The Co-Pact Team

“…</p> <p><strong>Method</strong> We undertook a participatory research process using photovoice to gather experience data. Photographs were assembled and narrated by 17 professionals from a variety of disciplines. …”

Adjoint-state differential arrival time tomography by Tong, Ping, Li, Tianjue, Chen, Jing, Nagaso,Masaru

“…Instead, it utilizes the eikonal equation to depict the minimal traveltime field from an earthquake location to any position in the computational domain. The process of tomographic inversion is formulated as an optimization problem with the goal of minimizing the difference between observed and theoretical first arrival times, which is subsequently solved using the efficient adjoint method. …”
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Objects of Collaboration: Roles of Objects in Spanning Knowledge Boundaries in a Design Company by Brubaker, Eric R, Sheppard, Sheri D, Hinds, Pamela J, Yang, Maria C

“…This paper describes a two-year inductive ethnographic study within a turbomachinery design company to understand how cross-functional design teams span their knowledge boundaries to advance their designs and design processes. …”
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Mobilizing bodies: unsettling sustainable mobility through cycling in Los Angeles by Davidson, AC

“…</p> <p>In this dissertation, I work through a methodology of 'riding theory' by bringing together (material) feminist, queer and critical race theories with multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork on cycling practices, focusing mainly on Los Angeles, California. …”

Dwelling encounters: migration, diversity and ambivalence in an Istanbul neighborhood by Biehl, K

“…<p>This thesis is about processes and lived experiences of inhabiting urban contexts deeply and continuously impacted by migration driven population changes. It builds on an ethnographic study of a neighbourhood in Istanbul known as Kumkapı, which over recent decades has emerged as a zone of arrival and initial settlement for successive new waves of migrants coming from an ever more expanding geography. …”

Dissonances in care: childhood, well-being, and the politics of welfare in Japan by Chapman, CR

“…Through twelve months of ethnographic research in Tokyo, I worked with children, caregivers, caseworkers, and psychologists to contextualize discursive representations of care and children. …”

Temporal Telepresence: Immersive Interfaces for TeleAbsence by Pillis, D.

“…The urge to capture our past into networks of photographic, written, filmed, and object-based narratives has long been a means for individuals to identify change, growth, and gain perspective on themselves. …”
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MAS.963 Special Topics: Computational Camera and Photography, Fall 2008 by Raskar, Ramesh

“…If novel cameras can be designed to sample light in radically new ways, then rich and useful forms of visual information may be recorded &mdash; beyond those present in traditional photographs. Furthermore, if computational process can be made aware of these novel imaging models, them the scene can be analyzed in higher dimensions and novel aesthetic renderings of the visual information can be synthesized. …”
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Investigating the influence of elements in pocket parks on the psychological restoration of young people: a study from Guiyang and Chongqing in Southwest China by Ma, Geng, Pellegrini, Paola, Ma, Jiaqi, Shi, Linfeng

“…Focusing on Guiyang and Chongqing as study locations, the research utilized 20 photographs to represent typical elements within pocket parks. …”
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Instability Scaffolding: Enacting Strategic Instabilities to Produce Authentic Premium Wine by Zhang, Alan

“…My data are drawn from a 16-month ethnographic study of two field sites in the California premium wine industry, combined with archival data and industry interviews. …”
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Technology integration in newborn care: examining communication and decision-making among health professionals in Kenyan hospitals by Ngaiza, GK

“…</p> <p>Using a focused ethnographic approach, I conducted unstructured non-participatory observations, in-depth interviews, and document reviews in two newborn units in level-five Kenyan hospitals. …”

Does not compute: social dissonance in England's computing education policy by Larke, L

“…</p> <p>Using teacher interviews, student writing and drawings, student interviews, extensive classroom observations, and policy analysis, this ethnographic case study of four primary school classrooms in the South of England will examine how the addition of computing to England’s National Curriculum came to pass and why it is not meeting its stated goals, before discussing what this means about past assumptions and future possibilities for young people’s engagement with and understanding of modern digital technologies in formal education settings. …”

Cell-free biomimetic polyurethane-based scaffold for breast reconstruction following non-malignant lesion resection. A first-in-human study by Mariniello, Maria D., Ghilli, Matteo, Favati, Benedetta, Gerges, Irini, Colizzi, Livio, Tamplenizza, Margherita, Tocchio, Alessandro, Martello, Federico, Ghilardi, Maria, Cossu, Maria C., Danti, Serena, Roncella, Manuela

“…We evaluated incidence of adverse events (AEs), changes in breast appearance (using photographs and anthropomorphic measurements), interference with ultrasound and MRI (assessed by two independent investigators), investigator’s satisfaction (through a VAS scale), patient’s pain (through a VAS scale) and quality of life (QoL) (using the BREAST-Q© questionnaire). …”
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Autonomy Work: Personhood, Expertise, and Activism of Disabled AI Data Workers in China by Wu, Di

“…The study draws on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork, conducted over three years, with disabled activists, disabled workers, employment advocates, tech company staff, and government officials. …”
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Indo-European youth priesthoods and the Männerbund theory: a study of the Vedic Vrātyas and their ancient Indo-European analogues by Elby, T

“…This study assesses the plausibility of a German ethnographic concept known as the <em>Männerbund</em>, a social institution among tribal societies, when applied to aspects of religion in ancient societies, particularly those of Greece, Germany, India, Iran, Ireland, Rome, and Scandinavia. …”

Data for the ‘Orchid Observers’ project by Shuttleworth, S, O’Donnell, J, Lintott, C, Tweddle, J

“…Using the Zooniverse platform, participants can upload their photographs of orchids in flower in their own area, help identify the species in each photograph and classify the flowering stage. …”

Advancing healthcare with artificial intelligence: diagnostic accuracy of machine learning algorithm in diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy in the Brazilian population by dos Reis, Mateus A., Künas, Cristiano A., da Silva Araújo, Thiago, Schneiders, Josiane, de Azevedo, Pietro B., Nakayama, Luis F., Rados, Dimitris R. V., Umpierre, Roberto N., Berwanger, Otávio, Lavinsky, Daniel, Malerbi, Fernando K., Navaux, Philippe O. A., Schaan, Beatriz D.

“…Methods We included color fundus photographs from individuals from 4 databases (primary and specialized care settings), excluding uninterpretable images. …”
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Edible Bird's Nest treatment effects on subchondral bone and articular cartilage changes and synovial fluid proteome profiles in an osteoarthritis rabbit model by Syed Sulaiman, Sharifah Zakiah

“…The joints were subjected to micro-computed tomographic (micro-CT) analysis and histological evaluation. …”
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Automated lesion segmentation and quantification for prediction of paradoxical worsening in patients with tubercular serpiginous-like choroiditis by Kalra, Gagan, Agarwal, Aniruddha, Marchese, Alessandro, Agrawal, Rupesh, Bansal, Reema, Gupta, Vishali

“…A fully automated custom-designed pipeline was developed which was initially tested using 12 baseline color fundus photographs for assessment of repeatability. After confirming reliability using Bland-Altman plots and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), the pipeline was deployed for all patients. …”
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Sociospatial reframing of walking through inclusive streets and urban heritage by Wang, Yongcheng

“…Moving from international practices to local experiences, mobile ethnographic interviews were conducted with older adults and persons with disabilities in Singapore to understand their mobility needs and perceptions. …”
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